Victoria's power sell off - Shocking Truth doco

 

This is what happens when you put a state asset into the hands of private companies. What happens when you have multiple sets of management instead of one running the whole show. What happens when profits come first and the people last. When you put shareholders in charge of infrastructure instead of the public.

State owned electricity surely shouldn't have been put there simply to earn a profit at the expense of everything else. It should be there to provide what is today surely a basic right in an industrialised world; electricity at an accessible price for 100% of the population. That is it's basic function, whether it turns a profit or not is beside the point. That's what taxes are paid for; not to turn a profit but to provide a service.